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NO. PER PKT. 
any extra care In culture will be amply repaid. Sow the seeds In a hot-bed, or frame, or in 
the open ground after the season becomes warm and settled; they transplant easily, but 
best while quite voung. Set the plants from twelve to. twenty inches apart, according as 
they are tall or dwarf kinds; they look best in groups of three, five, or more plants, or in 
fancy beds, edged with some showy dwarf plant. If part of the side-branches are pinched 
off as soon as they appear, those remaining will grow much stronger, and the flowers will 
be seen to much greater advantage. Tender annuals. 
The following comprise ail the most beautiful colors and varieties, saved from the purest 
double flowers. For separate colors, see Special Collections. 
140 Balsam. 
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148 
Fine Double, mixed colors.5 
Dwarf Double, finest mixed.10 
French Camellia-flowered spotted, variegated and self-colored varie¬ 
ties mixed; very double and perfect.10 
German Camellia-flowered, spotted, various colors, all spotted with 
white; very double and beautiful; mixed.15 
French Kose-ilowered, verv large flowered, double, and perfectly-formed 
flowers; finest colors mixed.10 
French Rose-flowered spotted, large and fine double; about eight 
splendid varieties all spotted with white.20 
New Double Rose-flowered, Dwarf, grow about nine inches high; very 
fine, and very double; four varieties mixed.15 
New Carnation Striped.15 
Solferino, a new variety: flowers pure white, spotted and striped with 
lilac and scarlet, like a Carnation; very large-flowered and beautiful . .25 
BARTONIA. Nat. Ord., Loasece. 
149 Bartonia aurea (golden). (See engraving.) Flowers yellow, nbout an inch and a half 
across, which have quite a metallic lustre when the sun shines upon them; 
very showy. 2 ft.5 
150 Betonica grandiflora. This is a very handsome, hardy, herbaceous plant, grows 
about two feet in height, with numerous heads of showy pink flowers, 
which appear during the months of August and September . . . .10 
BALLOON VINE (Cardiospermum). Nat. Ord., Sapindacece. 
A very pretty climbing plant, remarkable for an inflated membranous capsule, from 
which it derives the name of Balloon Vine. It answers either for the greenhouse or open 
ground. Ilalf-liardy annual. 
151 Cardiospermum halicacabum, white; from India. 5 ft.10 
BAPTISIA. Nat. Ord., Leguminosce. 
152 Baptisia Australis, a handsome border-plant, of the easiest culture; flowers blue. 
Ilardy perennial. 2 ft.10 
153 “ alba, a wbite-flotvered variety. Ilardy perennial.25 
